Chris Malley
Senior Researcher

Profile

Biography

Chris joined SEI in September 2015 as a research associate focussing on the development of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Supporting NAtional Planning (CCAC SNAP) toolkit.

The CCAC SNAP toolkit aims to demonstrate the socio-economic benefits achievable through national emission reductions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Chris’s work involves the formulation of emission inventories, future scenarios, cost-benefit analysis and training of toolkit users.

Chris’s interest in air pollution and its impacts were fostered during a PhD in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The focus was on the interpretation of data collected at the two UK monitoring supersites to demonstrate the linkage between specific impacts (e.g. on human health and vegetation) of atmospheric composition, and the conditions producing them. To achieve this a wide variety of tools and statistical techniques were used, which resulted in broader research interests in the application of statistical tools to investigate air pollution, and specifically how these tools can be integrated together to maximise the information derived from available data.

Chris is currently also a member of the statistics and database working group contributing to the production of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR).

Career

• MChem (Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
• PhD (Atmospheric chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
• 2015 – present: Senior Research Associate at SEI York

Publications

Selected publications

Seltzer, K. M., Shindell, D. T. and Malley, C. S. (2018). Measurement-based assessment of health burdens from long-term ozone exposure in the United States, Europe, and China. Environmental Research Letters, 13(10). 104018. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae29d

C.S. Malley, von Schneidemesser, E., Sarah Moller,S., Braban, C.F., Hicks, W.K and Heal, M.R. Analysis of the distributions of hourly NO2 concentrations contributing to annual average NO2concentrations across the European monitoring network between 2000 and 2014. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 3563-3587, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3563-2018 https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/18/3563/2018/acp-18-3563-2018.html

Zoë L. Fleming, Ruth M. Doherty, Erika von Schneidemesser, Christopher S. Malley, Owen R. Cooper, Joseph P. Pinto, Augustin Colette, Xiaobin Xu, David Simpson, Martin G. Schultz, Allen S. Lefohn, Samera Hamad, Raeesa Moolla, Sverre Solberg, Zhaozhong Feng. Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day ozone distribution and trends relevant to human health. In: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 2018;6(1):12. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.273

Lefohn, A. S., Malley, C. S., Smith, L., Wells, B., Hazucha, M., Simon, H. et al. Tropospheric ozone assessment report: global ozone metrics for climate change, human health, and crop/ecosystem research In: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 2018;6(1):28. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.279/

Lefohn, A.S., C.S.Malley, H. Simon, B. Wells, X. Xu, L. Zhang, T.Wang Responses of human health and vegetation exposure metrics to changes in ozone concentration distributions in the European Union, US, and China. In: Atmospheric Environment 152 (2017) pp123-145

Malley, C.S., J.C.I. Kuylenstierna, H.W. Vallack, D.K. Henze, H. Blencowe and M.R. Ashmore Preterm birth associated with maternal fine particulate matter exposure: A global, regional and national assessment . In: Environment International, Volume 101, April 2017, Pages 173-182 online 10 February 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.01.023

Anenberg, S.C., J. Miller, R. Minjares, L. Du, D. K. Henze, F. Lacey, C. S. Malley, L. Emberson, V. Franco, Z. Klimont & C. Heyes . Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel-related NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets. In: Nature. Volume 545, pages467–471 (25 May 2017) DOI: doi:10.1038/nature22086

Malley, C.S., D.K. Henze, J.C.I. Kuylenstierna, H.W. Vallack, et al Updated global estimates of respiratory mortality in adults ≥30 years of age attributable to long-term ozone exposure. In: Environmental Health Perspectives. Vol. 125, Issue 8. DOI: 10.1289/EHP1390

Malley, C. S., Heal, M. R., Mills, G., & Braban, C. F. (2015). Trends and drivers of ozone human health and vegetation impact metrics from UK EMEP supersites measurements (1990-2013). Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 15, 4025-4042. 10.5194/acp-15-4025-2015.

Malley, C. S., Braban, C. F., Dumitrean, P., Cape, J.N., and Heal, M.R. (2015). The impact of speciated VOCs on regional ozone increment derived from measurements at the UK EMEP supersites between 1999 and 2012 (1990-2013). Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 15, 7267-7308. 10.5194/acpd-15-7267-2015.

Malley, C. S., Braban, C. F., & Heal, M. R. (2014). New Directions: Chemical climatology and assessment of atmospheric composition impacts. Atmospheric Environment, 87, 261-264. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.01.027.

Malley, C. S., Braban, C. F., & Heal, M. R. (2014). The application of hierarchical cluster analysis and non-negative matrix factorization to European atmospheric monitoring site classification. Atmospheric Research, 138, 30- 40. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.10.019.